File case or cabinet.



Patonted Feb. 26, l90i.

.1. R. sumo FILE CASE 0R CABINET. (Application ma Aug. 24. 1900.

(No Nodal.)

E] as NITF STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN READ BURTON, OF CURTAIN ROAD, COUNTY OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

FILE CASE OR CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,848, dated February26, 1901.

Application filed August 24, 1900. Serial No. 27,930. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN READ BURTON, mahogany and timber merchant, asubject of the Queen of England, residing at 32 Rivington street,Curtain road, in the county of London, England, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in File Cases or Cabinets; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to file cases or cabinets, and has for its objectto fit the same with document-tiles so constructed and arranged as toafford self-supporting means for their inspection when the case orcabinet is in the open position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a filecase or cabinet with my invention fitted thereto, and Fig. 2 is asection on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Like parts are lettered to correspond in the two figures.

In the form shown by way of example in the drawings the tray A, mountedin the shell B of the file-case, is divided into a suitable number ofcompartments by partitions C C, so as to form compartments to receivedocument-files. In each compartment the vertical partitions C areprovided at corresponding parts with rabbets, grooves, or recesses 0',(see Fig. 2,) formed, preferably, by securing battens c to the sides Cof the compartment, extending horizontally from front to back, as shownin Fig. 2, and just above the bottom formed by the horizontal partitionC. The space between the bottom C and the batten c, forming the rabbet,groove, or recess 0, is just sufficiently large to take the thickness ofthe material of the base-board d d of the document-file D and allow thesame to be easily slid in and along these rabbets, grooves, or recessesc.

The document-file is of ordinary construction, and its bottom (1 issecured to the forward end d of the base-board (Z d, which latterextends slightly beyond it at the sides, as shown in Fig. 1, so as toprovide a flange on each side to engage in the rabbets c in thecompartment in the manner already described. The two parts 01 and d ofthe baseboard are hinged together at their meeting edges (Z3, and thesemeeting edges may be beveled, so as to abut against each other, and actas a stop to prevent the parts of the baseboard from being turned ontheir hinges beyond a certain angle. Instead of being hinged the twoparts at and d of the base-board d d may be otherwise connected, so thatthe baseboard is foldable transversely, and stops may, if desired, beformed on or secured to the compartment to limit the turning movement ofthe foldable base-board.

When a document-file is required for use, the front end is pulled untilthe file is beyond the void in the front of the compartment and then letgo. The base-board d 01 will then turn on' its hinge or foldableconnection 01 and the forward part 61 will assume the inclined positionshown in Fig. 2, the file being held in this position by the rear part01 of the base-board, which still remains in the horizontal rabbets,grooves, or recesses c, as shown. When done with, the document-file isreplaced in the compartment by raising it to the horizontal position andpushing it in, causing the edges of the base-board to travel along therabbets, grooves, or recesses c.

It will be obvious that the form of the tray or shell of the case orcabinet is not material, all that is necessary being a compartment toreceive the document-file and having rabbets, grooves, or recesses onits opposite vertical sides to receive the edges of the baseboard.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

A file case or cabinet comprising a compartment having horizontaloppositely-arranged grooves or recesses, a base-board consisting of thetwo sections at d hinged together at their meeting edges so as to permitthe section (1 to turn downward at an angle, the side edges of the saidsections d d being slidingly mounted in the grooves, and the bottomsection d secured to the section (1 and being of less width than thesections 01 d whereby the latter project beyond the sides of the sectiond as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN READ BURTON. Witnesses:

G. D. NEVILLE, W. J. NORWOOD.

